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cantar

1

In Turkey, 124.7 pounds avoirdupois (old wt), about 56.56 kilograms.

2

In Cyprus, by Law XI of 1890 (passed 20 May 1890), two units of mass:

the cantar = 44 okes = 123.2 pounds av., about 55.88 kilograms.
the Aleppo cantar, = 180 okes = 504 pounds av., about 228.61 kilograms.

Henry J. Chaney.
Our Weights and Measures. A Practical Treatise on the Standard Weights and Measures in use in the British Empire...
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897.

Page 42.

sources

44 okes = 1 cantar. 180 okes = 1 cheki, or Aleppo cantar.

A. R. Savile.
Cyprus.
London: H.M.S.O., 1878.
Page 160.
British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28.
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